Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1887-07-15
The Battle Flags.
Correspondence OF the TINES.

The southern people have just had q manifest
alton of the utter inamanIty and dectetfulne>s
Republic in protesting TO have laid at rest the
issues and passions OF the war. and extending the
hand OF love and fellowship 10 the people and
veterans OF the south. All over the country,
north and south, the men who were once enemies
have been affillating with more appa rant friend
before the war But he who trusts the republi-
can Professions or promises must come to grief
Once excite their old prejudices.arouse their cup
idity infiame their anaticisIn nd they al once
become wild with rage and hate. ready TO
enact the barbarous scenes in which they but q
few years ago took such hearty delight. The
proposition OF Gen. Drum, a staunch republican,
but an Engishman by birth. hence not possess
ing the fanaticism and hate of a Yankee, by and
with the consent OF the President To distribute
certain old rags among the states, now rotting
In one of the attics of the War Department Is
the triiing cause Of the sudden flight of smiabil-
ity good feeling and brotherly love Of those lead
of the G. A. r.. and indeed of the whole north
comprised within the fold OF the epubIicans. The
true inwardness" of this whole disgrsceful bust
ness Is patent to everyone who understands the
methods Of that gang of demegogues who dictate
TO and rule the republican party. II Gen. Drum
had made the suggestion without the cooperation
of Mr.. Cleveland, would there have been aay
yells OF indignation from those gentlemen Nary
yell. But every trihing incident, every word
uttered by any one connected with the admins
tration, which can by possibility be tortured
TO place the President in false light before the
country, or TO arouse Indignation against the
south, Is seized upon with avidity by these ami
able loving friends(?) for the purpose Of advanc-
ing the interests of one or the other of those
such schemers and soul haters of the southern
people, John Sherman and Jim Blaine. The lat
ter cunningly absents himself from the country
playing tiunky to English arrstocracy while as
he well knows his penchmen are playing his art
full game, and thus he thinks to blind the people
to his demagOgeusm and bloody shirt villiany
the whole game having been laid down and the
cards stocked by that great political gambler
These two ruling spirits of republicanism well
latter body of their party but by arousing the
sectional luminosity of tine anatical portion of the
north and west by appealing to passions which
but seem to slumber, yet need only breeze to
fan them to q flame. Indeed it would not sur
prise some people to hear that the proposition to
and directly from the arch agtators of the re-
publican party, in order to place Mr.. Cleveland
In an unpopular light before the fanatics of the
north. well knowing their excitabilty and
praising the growing popularity OF Mr.. Cleveland.
VINO so Tar has given them no chance to raise n
well believe that he would favor return of flags
in view OF his national patriotism, his untiring
Efforts towards universal amnesty and good feel
ing between the sections. Such scheme would
he In unsion with the methods Of those men who
robbed Mr.. Tilden of the votes of these sovereign
states OF the Union, and ordered twenty thou
sand troops TO Washington to terrOrZe the hon
est democracy of the county and inaugurate
their pgmy Hayes who was so we'll convinced
OF the fraud he was aiding to enact that he en-
tered into a cOntIac with southern democrats
that If permitted to cOnsummate the villainy he
would grant certain powers to the SOUTH such as
the removal Of the armies from Their borders
&c. 1t behOOves the democrats to be on the Qui
riUe for tricks that ere dark" on the part OF
Blaine. Sherman and their followers or be forced
to act the role Of Jelo-de-se.
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